What is going on with Angelina Jolies neck?

Here are some new(er) photos of the Brangelina clan (just Angelina, Brad and Pax) out and about in Venice on Wednesday, where we saw them on Tuesday. It looks like they’re going to be settled there for a little while, as Angelina begins filming on The Tourist. Italian sources have them staying in Venice for three months, but that seems like too long. Other sources also claim that they’re staying at “the Palazzo, a gorgeous home located between Rialto, and Accademia in Venice, overlooking San Toma.” Hmm… sounds nice.

Angelina’s already gotten some special highlights put in for her new role, but they look totally budget, like they came from one of those do-at-home kits with a gnarly comb applicator (a better photo of her new hair here). But what is really, really, REALLY bothering me is whatever the hell is happening to her jaw line in these photos:

What the hell is that? That’s like the weirdest vein/bone/muscle/dear-God-kill-the-monster sketchiness I’ve ever seen. And you know I like Angelina! It pains me to think that this is part of some weird plastic surgery or something like that. But I don’t even see how it could be part of some facelift or something? If it was a facelift, wouldn’t it be, like, a weird scar by her ear? This isn’t just some weird scar. I think this is just her ugly neck. Hollywood Life theorizes that it’s “an Angelina mask”. Which honestly might make more sense.

Note by Celebitchy: Although Hollywood Life notes that there are photos from at least two different agencies that show this strange protrusion near Angelina’s neck, many people are commenting that it’s a bad photoshop job. You can see the difference in the pixels on the skin right near the alien scar thing and her other skin. It looks like someone used the smudge and clone tool. There’s also a pigmentation difference between the two photos, where there’s a dark mark on her cheek in the bottom photo they show and no mark on the upper photo. It really looks like Photoshop. Sometimes the same photographer will sell pictures to different agencies so if this is the case it could be the work of one person. It could alternately be some kind of prosthetic for a role, if she’s actually filming now.

Angelina, Brad and Pax in Venice on February 17, 2010. Credit: INFphoto.com

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